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User Group Urges IBM To Open OS/2
axonis writes "A report on Tom's Hardware tells of one of the last active OS/2 user groups, which has announced an initiative to garner support for IBM to release its long-neglected OS/2 operating system into the open source community. IBM announced earlier this month that it will withdraw its operating system OS/2 officially from sale on December 23 this year and will offer support only through 2006." From the article: "Making OS/2 Open Source will benefit all IBM customers that had invested in this OS...Customers that are willing to continue using OS/2 will get the benefits of an open OS that will be continuously developed by individual developers and/or software companies, their ownership fees will decrease and they will have the enhanced security of an OS that will continue to be relevant due to the open-ended nature of open source (following the BSD and Linux examples)."
Are you saying that IBM doesn't own OS/2 outright? That doesn't sound like IBM at all.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
Yeah, next thing you know someone will start a petition to open source Solaris!
"oh, shit, how are we going to explain that it's just a bunch of cats taped together?"
Aw, come on. No-one really needs anything other than a 25-pin RS-232 serial interface and 16-colour VGA. Wireless networking? Dangerous, man! The waves will cook you. Also, you should really be happy only with a single-speed CD-ROM drive. Anything faster, and the disk melts from the centrifugal force. Cd Burner, yeah right. You really have to pay a lot more in homeowner insurance for that. I won't even touch "firewire", not without asbestos gloves anyway.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
U read the RTFA ?
Dude thats cheating !
Yep. Microsoft "owns" the TCP/IP stack they stole from BSD.
Are you...Are you some kind of genius?
No, ma'am, I'm just a regular Slashdot reader.
Rule #1 of pointing out grammatical/spelling errors: Make sure your post doesn't have any of its own.
it has SCO code in it!
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Are you new here too? It's also the slashdot way to wildly generalize about slashdot posters as though they are a single gigantic hive mind. :D
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You're on target with the way you called me names and insulted my intelligence while posting as an AC though, that's definitely also the slashdot way.
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That song works so much better when you replace all instances of the word "ironic" with the words "a bummer."